Placobdelloides
| Placobdelloides | |
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| Placobdelloides siamensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Class: | Clitellata |
| Subclass: | Hirudinea |
| Order: | Rhynchobdellida |
| Family: | Glossiphoniidae |
| Genus: | Placobdelloides Sawyer, 1986 |
Placobdelloides is a genus of glossophoniid leeches.[1]
Description[]
Species of Placobdelloides lack a jaw and usually feed with a protrusible proboscis; they are predacious or sanguivorous, or both, on a variety of prey such as shrimps, waterfowl, fish, amphibians, turtles, crocodiles or mammals.[2]
Species[]
The genus includes 17 species found worldwide: [2][3]
- (Best, 1931)
- (Ingram, 1957)
- (Harding, 1924)
- (Johansson, 1909)
- (Harding, 1921)
- (Baugh, 1960)
- (Baugh, 1960)
- (Johansson, 1909)
- (Benham, 1907)
- (Johansson, 1909)
- (Grube, 1866)
- (Oka, 1925)
- (Soós, 1969)
- Placobdelloides siamensis (Oka, 1917)
- Trivalairat, Chiangkul & Purivirojkul, 2019
- Goverdich et al., 2002
- (Harding, 1924)
References[]
- ^ Sawyer, Roy T. (1986). Leech Biology and Behaviour. Volume II: Feeding biology, ecology, and systematics. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-857622-8.
- ^ a b Chiangkul, Krittiya; Trivalairat, Poramad; Purivirojkul, Watchariya (2018). "Redescription of the Siamese shield leech Placobdelloides siamensis with new host species and geographic range". Parasite. 25: 56. doi:10.1051/parasite/2018056. ISSN 1776-1042. PMC 6254108. PMID 30474597.
- ^ Trivalairat, Poramad; Chiangkul, Krittiya; Purivirojkul, Watchariya (2019). "Placobdelloides sirikanchanae sp. nov., a new species of glossiphoniid leech and a parasite of turtles from lower southern Thailand (Hirudinea, Rhynchobdellida)". ZooKeys. 882: 1–24. doi:10.3897/zookeys.882.35229. ISSN 1313-2970.
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